18: Can't Read Kant
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Alex talks with Joe Cannatti about parenting, social anxiety, and zen buddhism. The music is This is Everything That I Own, by Corissa Bragg.
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17: Finding that space in between
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Guest Evan Light and Alex talk about mindfulness, empathy, Search Inside Yourself, and kitties. Music: (via the Free Music Archive)
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16: Existential Angst
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Alex and JB talked about depression, energy, financial security, and creating your own meaningful story. The music is Calling on Dolphins, by Fourstones.
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15. Another one of those words
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Jessica Kerr, Alex Harms. I accidentally deleted this one and now I'm putting it back. So.
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14: Always Making Goofy Faces
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Dave Shah, Alex Harms. We talked about the TDD & strong convictions, Military & peace & love, getting your mind blown at conferences, religion, and who knows what else? Music: John Philip Sousa. Stars and Stripes Forever
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13: It's scary, and that's good
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Alex Lancaster & Alex Harms discuss emergence, improv, art. Music: Will Bernard and Motherbug, Three-toed Sloth
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12: The Joys and Dangers of NVC
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Guest Isaac Schlueter & Alex talk about NVC, and how it has helped us, and ways we've seen it used to create pain, as well. And we touch on Isaac's company, NPM, employee happiness, and Javascript. The music this time is a , found at archive.org.
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11.5 We interrupt this podcast...
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Jason Felice, Alex Harms. This is an unplanned episode, in which Jason & Alex have a conversation about LambdaConf, etc. (Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, courtesy of archive.org)
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11: Don't Let Go
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Duke Green, Jason Felice, Alex Harms. We talked a lot about race, and a little about not getting caught up in ideas about yourself while coding that distract you from the work. And Duke sang a song for us.
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10: This Emergent Dance
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Episode 10: This Emergence Dance
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You've only got so many heartbeats.
With Leon Gersing of Dev Bootcamp
People
Leon Gersing @rubybuddha
Alex Harms @onealexharms
Jason Felice @eraserhd
Tracy Harms @kaleidic
Snips
- 6:54 "When... Neo goes into the matrix and starts to move all the walls and stuff around, we're both going 'oh God, that's terrible," but we're also going "Yessss!"
- 9:03 "You only got so many heartbeats, so you really gotta get to the meat of your life."
- 11:46 "And I felt like I had to be somebody else..."
- 28:39 "People want to see the path and be able to walk it and know exactly what signposts they're gonna hit... That's not life! That's not how it works, y'all."
- 33:12 On mentors: "Jim Holmes... when I was most confused, he offered a lot of great advice... Jim Weirich was a wonderful beacon of light."
- 36:10 "Suzan Bond... every time we talk, it's like another light bulb goes off."
- 36:38 "I'm looking for other artists. I want to vibe with them... I want to hear their thoughts and see their work, and show them my work. And hopefully that evolves us forward."
Music
Jim Weirich, God Wrote in Lisp Code